De Armond v. Neasmith

Pee Oubiam:

Defendants in error brought trover in justice’s court for the conversion of a two-year-old heifer. The only question apparently in dispute between the parties was one of identity, each party claiming to own and -to having raised the heifer.

A witness sworn on the part of the plaintiffs below, after testifying that he had been among Neasmith’s herd of cattle the last two or throe years, was asked: “How were they as to being gentle, coming around you?” This was objected to as immaterial, but was admitted. This, we think, was competent evidence to go to the jury as bearing upon the…